Word: victor
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Harvard senior John Brzezenski, a defensive tackle on the Harvard football team, took first place honors in the 35-1b. weight competition with a hurl of 56-ft. 11-in. Derrick Horner was the only other Crimson victor in field competition, winning the long jump with a leap of 7.17 meters...
...Victor Geddes, 33, suffers from leukemia. Abandoning his chemotherapy, he places an ad in the Boston Globe for a companion and caretaker; Hilary Atkinson, 27, applies for the job. Soon these two fall in love and move to the anonymity of a rented room on the Massachusetts coast. There, as winter sets in, they meet Gordon, 30, who becomes Victor's friend and, on the sly, Hilary's lover. The situation is messy, but at least members of the menage can foresee one outcome for certain: Victor will die soon...
...author's smartest move is letting Hilary tell the tale. This young woman seems peculiarly passive and affectless, not the sort to dwell on or even recognize pathos or tragedy. All perceptions -- grocery displays, radio chatter, the sight of Victor vomiting in a bathroom -- pass through her consciousness with equal weightlessness. Hilary constantly learns things that anyone her age should probably already know. She removes some pictures from the room she and Victor have rented: "When I took them from the wall I noticed that the spaces the frames had occupied were a darker shade than the rest...
...Miserables (1987). Victor Hugo's tale of the downtrodden and a doomed revolution electrified 19th century Europe. Set to an emotion-drenched score and given a nonpareil staging, it has stirred audiences all over the late 20th century world...